Printed Whiteware Rim Sherd

A light blue transfer-printed rim sherd from a flatware vessel, likely a large plate. The surface decoration uses a repeating floral and leaf border alternating with starbursts. This rim likely originates from a vessel adorned with a variation of the "Isola Belle" pattern created by William Adams IV & Sons of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire between 1829 and 1861. Meaning "beautiful island" the title probably referred to an area in Lake Maggiore, Italy or Taormina in Sicily.

• Object number

  460.376

• Date made

  1850 - 1861

• Decoration

  Printed

• Color

  Blue, Light

• Animals/objects

  Plate

• Patterns

  Printed, Line and Stipple

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Stadt Huys Block 554 - 460

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Whiteware

• Techniques

  Press Molded